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27,000 lives saved by search and rescue charity in Mediterranean
03.10.2016 09:17 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
Around 27,000 lives have been saved within the past two years by a charity set up by one American family who felt a «call to action» to help refugees and migrants, UN Radio says referring to
Christopher Catrambone, founder of Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS), report.
It is to be admitted, Catrambone was at UN Headquarters in New York this month, taking part in a meeting on large movements of refugees and migrants.
It is to be mentioned, MOAS was set up in 2013, after 400 migrants had drowned off the Italian island of Lampedusa. The Catrambone family bought a ship and converted it into search-and-rescue vessel, and last year public funding enabled MOAS to expand into a global NGO.
In meanwhile, as to UN data, within this year about 3,500 have died or gone missing trying to cross the Mediterranean.
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